I Love Park and Ride is a park and ride operation at Stansted Airport. Code BCP25 takes up to 25% off the pre-booked rate — the price you book ahead at, not the £72 you would pay driving up on the day. Verified 10 September 2026.
Sitewide code BCP25 is worth up to 25% off, and the codes below carry their own percentages. Each button opens our quote form with that code already applied. Checked 10 September 2026.
Park and ride puts you a few miles out and buses you in. You keep the keys and the car stays where you left it. In exchange for the transfer at both ends it is normally the lowest price available at any UK airport.
At Stansted Airport specifically, we price 4 products here, and the £33-to-£54 spread across them is wider than the gap between most UK airports. Stansted sits beside the M11 in Essex, reached from Junction 8.
We have not taken a checked quote for I Love Park and Ride itself, so instead of inventing one here is the band it sits in — every product we track at Stansted, cheapest first, on the same eight-day booking. A park and ride quote should land near the park and ride rows.
| Car park | Type | At the barrier | Pre-booked | With a code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official Long Stay | On-airport | £72 | £41 | £33 |
| SMG Park & Ride | Park & ride | £75 | £45 | £36 |
| Official Mid Stay | On-airport | £98 | £62 | £50 |
| SMG Meet and Greet | Valet | £112 | £68 | £54 |
The spread at Stansted is £21 between the cheapest and the dearest product on the same dates, and you are choosing between categories rather than between companies. Which is why the first question is what kind of parking you want at Stansted, and the second is whose.
Not on the figures we hold. The cheapest product at Stansted is Official Long Stay at £33 for eight days with a code. Until we can take a checked quote for I Love Park and Ride, treat that as the number it has to beat.
This section exists because most discount sites do not run it. It is the quickest way to tell whether a listing has been checked or simply published. For the full local comparison, see Stansted Airport parking discount code.
The self-park half of the I Love brand, and Stansted is the only airport it is sold at — the valet product covers more ground. The two are genuinely different purchases at genuinely different prices, so booking the wrong one is an expensive accident.
Against that, here is what we have not been able to confirm for I Love Park and Ride, and which we will not state as fact until we have:
Blank is honest. Filled in with something plausible is not, and the two look identical to a reader, which is exactly why the second is so common. If you have booked with I Love Park and Ride recently and any of the above is wrong or missing, the contact page reaches a person.
The M11 is usually clear; the reliable delay is the airport's own approach road at the 4am departure peak, when the whole terminal arrives at once. Stansted sits beside the M11 in Essex, reached from Junction 8.
Drive to the confirmation postcode, not the airport's. It is worth doing this the night before — Stansted signage assumes you already know which car park you booked. For comparison, a drop-off at Stansted runs £7 for up to 15 minutes in the terminal drop-off zone, one of the highest in the UK — see the UK drop-off charges guide.